538 Assembly Proceedings, September 1664.

P. R. O.
Colonial En-
try Book

No. 53

Act for Burgesses expences) and begin their Lymetation as if
they were enacted the present sessions of assembly according
to the Lymetation expressed in the s^d seuerall Acts. This Act
to endure for three years or to the end of the next Gen^ll
Assembly.

An Act of Encouragem^t for W^m Smith
in his undertakinge the Cuntry's worck
at S^t Mary's

Whereas W^m Smith hath been and must bee att greate
charge in the repairinge and keepinge in Repaire the Cuntry's
howse at S^t Marys. Bee itt therefore Enacted by the right
honnor^ble the Lord prop^r by and w^th the consent of the uper
and lower house of this Gen^l Assembly That Eight Thousand
pounds of Tobacco bee this p^rsent year paid him out of the
publick Leauy, and hee the s^d Smith haue the benefitt of that
bond whereby hannah Lee now the wife of W^m Prise was
bound to couer the s^d Cuntry's house, and further the s^d Smith
is hereby bound to keep the s^d house in Repaire and tenant-
able for seauen years and keep ordinary therein, and upon
defaulte therein shall forfeite unto the cuntry ten thousand
pounds of tobacco And whereas the s^d Smith did propose to
this Assembly that if the cuntry would give him foure pounds
tobacco p pole for foure yeares together and grant him a lease
of the cuntry's Land for one and fifty years he would build a
howse for the cuntry's use upon the s^d land after this moddel.
That is to say forty foot square two storys and a half high, the
first story to be ten foot cleare, the second story to be Eight
foot cleare the half story four foot w^th a hip roofe with a
tamett in the middle Eight foot cleare from the flatt of the
roof: and underneath the said house a bricked sellar twenty four
foot square and an addition of twelf foot to the s^d house to
be diuided into four several roomes two storys high and to each

roome a chimney of brick and brick chimneys to all the other

roomes in the s^d house, the s^d house to bee couered with tile or
chingle and to bee wholly finished and completed as to dawb-
inge and glasinge four hundred feet of glass to be expended
at the least and wheresoever else is necessary to the well finish-
inge and compleatinge of a house to bee pformed by the said
Smith w^thout any further charge to the cuntry then as before.
Bee it therefore Enacted by the authority afores^d That foure
pounds of Tobacco p pole bee Yearly Leauyed the four next
ensuing years for the use of the s^d Smith, and that the s^d
Smith haue a Lease of the s^d house and the cuntry's Land
for one and fifty years and further the said Smith is
hereby enjoyn'd to keep the ordinary duringe his abode